The best electronic library for download. Book TOP: the most popular online libraries of Runet

One of the first and most popular Russian-language electronic libraries, it opened in 1994. Authors and readers replenish the library daily on a voluntary basis. The service does not take money, you can read absolutely everything for free. The only downside is that you can't download the book.

2. Aldebaran

11 Bookland.com

The Bookland e-book store also offers a collection of free titles in convenient formats in 18 languages.

12. Library club

Electronic library and online store "Biblioclub" offers interesting conditions: By purchasing 10 books, you can become the owner of the status of "Bookman" and get half the content of the store for free use. The platform also provides for the status of "Genius" - this is when you have free access to all books on the site. A good option, especially if you are interested in literature about business and self-development, educational collections.

13. "Russian fantasy"

The bookshelf of the site "Russian Science Fiction" contains more than 10,000 texts by 180 authors.

14. Project Gutenberg

The electronic library "Project Gutenberg" will please fans of reading in foreign languages. This is more than 46 thousand e-books, the predominant language is English.

15. ThankYou.ru

ThankYou.ru is a free music and literature portal. A good selection of books in fb2 electronic format, as well as the opportunity for aspiring authors to publish their book for free.

16. Library of Foreign Literature. Rudomino

Library of Foreign Literature. Rudomino digitized some of her holdings. Mainly rare books.

17. Bookcase

The cozy children's library "Bookcase" digitized many good children's books, but in 2009 it was subjected to hacker attack and lost almost all of her assets. But something has survived. You can read children's works by clicking on the book icon in the drawn cabinet.

18. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology shares profile books in PDF format on its bookshelf. The selection is rated as excellent.

19. Magazine room

"Magazine room" - digital library contemporary literary magazines Russia. Here you can find fresh numbers the most famous domestic "thick magazines". The database is replenished quite quickly, and it is interesting to read, because many great works are first published here, and then migrate to separate books.

20. Electronic Library of the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences

At the end of 2015, the "Electronic Library" section appeared on the website of the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Now it contains about 400 scanned scientific publications, divided by areas for the convenience of users. These are "Theory of Literature", "Russian Literature", "Literature of the Peoples of Russia and the CIS Countries", "Foreign Literature", "Folklore Studies" and others. The library is replenished, you can not register on the site.

Truly professional people have always been distinguished by their love of literature. Even Joseph Stalin, despite his high position, read at least 300 pages a day. It was the greatest honor to receive the Stalin Prize for Literature in the USSR, because the leader himself personally read all the books.

IN Lately more and more often they talk about the decline of book culture - Russia has long lost the title of the most reading country in the world. These assumptions are based on data from the book trade, which is indeed in a sad state. However, no conclusions can be drawn from this. People didn't stop reading - they just switched to another medium.

Electronic books, readers, as they were called, allow you to take with you not one book, but a whole library, which is very important if, for example, you want to read The Forsyte Saga and then immediately The Dark Tower. Naturally, there are no problems with storage. Yes, and with accessibility - you can get the book of interest immediately, and not go to the bookstore, in which it may well not be. But in order not to rush all over the Internet, it is useful to know the places where this particular old edition of a very rare book can be found.

and Flibusta (www.flibusta.net). Libraries are similar both in content (there are a lot of different books) and in design. On the page of each book there is an abstract, ratings and reviews from readers. Perhaps the only significant difference is that downloading some books on Librusek is paid. However, online reading is always available - on both sites.

Now let's move on to libraries with specialization.

The previous sites contain a huge number of books, but with rare exceptions, these are books from the 18th-21st centuries. If you need the text of "Daniel the Sharpener's Prayer", then the Im warden website (www.imwerden.de) will come to the rescue. Except ancient Russian literature and literature of the XVIII - XX centuries, the works of some foreign authors are presented.

For fans of science fiction, the site www.fantasykniga.com will be very useful. This is a relatively new library. A user-friendly interface, the possibility of free download, an active increase in the number of books, beautiful design, finally, can make the library popular in the near future.

Library Gumer

It should be noted the Gumer library (), which contains a selection of scientific papers in the humanities. Here you can find books on philology, Orthodoxy, jurisprudence, philosophy, foreign languages, incl. "exotic" - Japanese or Turkish. This is the most popular scientific portal where you can find what you can not find on other sites.

magazines.russ.ru) - the most convenient and complete collection periodicals. Files from the beginning of the nineties are presented. Here you can find magazines: Arion, Zvezda, Foreign Literature, Continent, New world etc. That is, "thick" literary magazines are presented.

The library "www.sci-lib.com" offers a selection of already scientific books and journals. Represented fields of knowledge: various natural sciences (archeology, astronomy, paleontology, physics, etc.), mathematics, technology, humanities (history, psychology, sociology), society. There is a selection of encyclopedic publications. So, here you can find all the volumes of Big Soviet Encyclopedia or the encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron.

To know better story Russia is offered by the Runivers portal (www.runivers.ru). The material is divided into sections: atlases, military history, general history, regimental, etc. There is a collection of historical documents.

Naturally, the number of Runet libraries is huge, but we have tried to draw your attention to the most famous and interesting projects.

Even the most devoted fans of traditional paper books will not deny that e-readers are becoming more and more popular. Increasingly, we see people reading books from the screen of a tablet computer, smartphone and other devices.

Today in our Top 5 are the best electronic libraries of Runet where you can find literature of different genres for free. Some libraries also offer to listen, view and download audio and video materials of an entertaining and educational nature.

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This online library appeared on the web back in 1994. The laconic design of the library website Lib.ru is noteworthy; the administration states that the appearance of the page has not changed since 1994 and will not change. In addition to literary texts, the site has a music section with popular songs in MP3 format.

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The library contains texts of 57 thousand works of various genres by 14 thousand authors. Almost 200 thousand users are registered on the portal. Privileges are available for authorized visitors: the ability to change the font size, page design when reading, the ability to view detailed ratings of books and authors, the ability to take part in polls and voting, the ability to create bookmarks.

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The library has texts of 100 thousand different works. The site has been operating since 2003, all texts are available both for reading online and for downloading. The library funds are replenished by the efforts of the readers themselves. It is noteworthy that on the page of each book there is a qr-code that allows the owners to mobile devices if you have a special application, use the convenient library service.

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The library has been operating since 2008, today the database contains more than 25 thousand texts, as well as many audio books and video lessons. The database contains quite a few periodicals of various profiles, here you can download the latest issues of Forbes, National Geographic Traveler, Men's Health and other magazines. More than 26 thousand people are registered users of the site.

One of the first and most popular Russian-language electronic libraries, it opened in 1994. Authors and readers replenish the library daily on a voluntary basis. The service does not take money, you can read absolutely everything for free. The only downside is that you can't download the book.

2. Aldebaran

The Aldebaran Library offers to download the book for free in any of the convenient electronic formats (epub, fb2, rtf, mobi, pdf), and before this step, read its excerpt. Service at the level!

4. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

A great lover of Dostoevsky's work, enthusiast Sergei Rublev decided to collect all the information about the writer on one site. These are not just the writer’s books (by the way, lifetime editions have been digitized), but also last news about film adaptations and television shows, research, as well as a list of museums and a photo archive.

5. TarraNova library

TarraNova asks to call itself not an electronic library, but an archive. The site management says that the main difference is that all the texts are posted officially, with the consent of the authors. However, ReadRate sees the main highlight in something else: TarraNova places not only author's texts, but also translations (with the names of translators). There are few well-known books here, but many interesting and worthwhile ones can be found.

6. Presidential Library. Yeltsin

Presidential Library Yeltsin digitizes rare books from Russian public libraries and collects them by thematic collections. There are a lot of interesting things. For example, for the Year of Literature, the service prepared a selection “Fact and Image Russian history in the works of Russian writers", where Derzhavin's "Ode" is a digitization of the Novosti magazine for June 1799.

You can use the free online library "Liberia" only after registration. Users have many responsibilities (publishing books, communication), but, they say, the selection of books is good.

9. Electronic library "Litmir"

The electronic library "Litmir" contains more than 200,000 books. They are convenient to read online, but when downloading the site asks to install special program, which scares off many new users. In the "Forum" section of the site, there is a rather lively communication between users with each other. At the end of 2015, the site went through several lawsuits with the EKSMO publishing house and the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, who insisted on closing the site, pointing to illegal content on it. In 2016, the site changed its owner and embarked on the path of correction. There are noticeably fewer books, and active work is underway to exclude illegal content.

12. Library club

The electronic library and online store "Biblioclub" offers interesting conditions: by purchasing 10 books, you can become the owner of the status of "Bookman" and get half of the store's content for free use. The platform also provides for the status of "Genius" - this is when you have free access to all the books on the site. A good option, especially if you are interested in literature about business and self-development, educational collections.

ThankYou.ru is a free music and literature portal. A good selection of books in fb2 electronic format, as well as the opportunity for aspiring authors to publish their book for free.

17. Bookcase

Cozy children's library "Electronic library". Now it contains about 400 scanned scientific publications, divided by areas for the convenience of users. These are "Theory of Literature", "Russian Literature", "Literature of the Peoples of Russia and the CIS Countries", "Foreign Literature", "Folklore Studies" and others. The library is replenished, you can not register on the site.

This coming Sunday, April 23, the whole world will celebrate Book and Copyright Day. This holiday became a world holiday not so long ago - the decision of UNESCO was taken in 1995 for the development of cultural traditions, and also taking into account the fact that books are the most important means of disseminating knowledge and the most in a reliable way their conservation

The creator of Lib.ru, the oldest electronic library in Runet, Maxim Moshkov is sure that despite the growing popularity of audiovisual formats of perception, books are regaining their former popularity: “After reading several news feeds and social networks, people still take a real book, load it into a smartphone and read” . Even if smartphones in the future transform from the form we are used to today, books in them will always remain close to the reader.

We wondered where Russians download digital books from today and whether they are interested in the future in these books - in our new heading "TOP" - a selection of the most popular online libraries of Runet, which, among other things, offer their readers a fantastic genre. As a basis for ranking, we took the level of the Yandex Citation Index (TIC) - a system for calculating the popularity of sites by the number of links to them on other Internet resources.

1. The leader of the "book" TOP was expectedly the library of Maxim Moshkov Lib.Ru. The status of the most authoritative and well-known is confirmed by the level of the citation index of over 16 thousand units. The most famous library in Runet was opened in 1994 and is being replenished by the authors and readers themselves. Today, the library contains more than three thousand fantastic works.

1. In second place is the online library "Aldebaran". TIC - 4700. For many, the purple design of this site still evokes nostalgia for the times when access to the Internet was the lot of the elite. In 2008, the site announced a change in priorities - it became possible to read books here only from the screen, and for downloading it was proposed to go to a digital bookstore. Fantasy is presented here with dignity, although its exact amount is not indicated.

1. Almost 100,000 books are currently represented in the Bookz.ru electronic library, and in terms of citation index - 4300 - it is barely inferior to Aldebaran. Almost all famous authors are presented in the science fiction section: both domestic and foreign.

1. The RoyalLib.ru library (TIC 2500) focuses on literature on philosophy, medicine and psychology. However, fantasy is also represented here, with all the books in this section carefully divided into sub-genres from post-apocalyptic to “romance fiction”.

1. Ranked fifth with a citation index of 2100, the Litportal library tries to captivate readers with extensive forums in each section and for each of the books. The collection of science fiction here is poorer - only about 5 thousand copies, but these are only time-tested books about the future.

1. In the library Thelib.ru (TIC 1800) among the works of classical and modern literature fantasy takes pride of place.

1. The library of scientific books and journals Sci-lib.com (1500) offers the richest collection scientific publications. There is no science fiction section as such, but there are many articles about technologies that even today look absolutely fantastic.

1. The Seran Electronic Library (TIC 1200) cannot boast of an exorbitant amount of literature - only a little more than one and a half thousand texts are presented here, however, there is a science fiction section, and science fiction is highlighted in a separate subsection.

1. A rather unusual representative of our list is the Belarusian Digital Library (TIC 1200), which presents the widest possible cross-section of the national literature of Belarus, including the texts of Belarusian science fiction writers.

1. Closes our book TOP "National digital resource" Rukont "- an intersectoral electronic library. According to the creators of the Russian Content website, there is a database of more than 440 thousand works, a significant part of which are fantastic works.